I would love to have an app that gave me options to customize my own graphic organizer. Essentially, the app would be a blank sheet of paper. On the right would be the shapes that I could drag over to the blank sheet of paper. Then, I could easily input any text into the shapes I want. The problem with Microsoft Word is that the formatting gets all wonky and it takes a long time to get the graphic organizers just the way you want them.

So many projects are completed and sent home and nobody gets to see them but me. I want to connect the families with the classroom more. Show work of all students, share ideas, etc.

Could it be scanning documents, photographing work, shooting videos... then uploading them to a site where a small description would be - and then an electronic notice sent to families? Families could then send the link to grandma and such.

It should be easy enough that non-tech savvy teachers could do it with the little spare time they have - and easy and accessible enough for students to do the scan/upload part right from the class computers.

So many projects are completed and sent home and nobody gets to see them but me. I want to connect the families with the classroom more. Show work of all students, share ideas, etc.

Could it be scanning documents, photographing work, shooting videos... then uploading them to a site where a small description would be - and then an electronic notice sent to families? Families could then send the link to grandma and such.

It should be easy enough that non-tech savvy teachers could do it with the little spare time they have - and easy and accessible enough for…

There are many great websites that are appropriate for preschool/prekindergarten aged children. The problem is that they begin clicking on everything and end up out of the site you have chosen. When working with a large group in a computer lab setting it is too hard to monitor every child to keep them in the correct website. I would like to see a program that would allow me to lock the children into certain sites or webpages so they do not end up off task. Many of the children I teach have never seen a computer and don't understand even the basic concepts of being on a website.

There are many great websites that are appropriate for preschool/prekindergarten aged children. The problem is that they begin clicking on everything and end up out of the site you have chosen. When working with a large group in a computer lab setting it is too hard to monitor every child to keep them in the correct website. I would like to see a program that would allow me to lock the children into certain sites or webpages so they do not end up off task. Many of the children I teach have never seen a computer and don't understand even…

Students, even high school and middle school students, don't know "how" to study or review. Some sort of an app or module or program to show kids how to do this effectively and how it is beneficial if done correctly and not in cram fashion!

in a course so that students could work at their own pace (but be prompted to keep working). Kinda like a step by step recipe or like the dailylit model where I can create the sequence and then students subscribe and work at a pace they define (daily, weekly, etc.)

We use reader's workshop, we have to look up every book on the computer with either scholastic or lexile levels. It would be great if you could scan it with my phone or tablet and it would inform me of the level.

You would be able to connect a class list with a new assignment that was on a blog or wiki. You should be able to see at a glance who had submitted work and who had not and be able to click on the student name to see the work.

Game designers would create generic game formats that could be continually updated (for a fee, of course). Teachers could load study data into a study bank and this would interface with the game so that students would need to get the answer right to go to another level or gain 'weapons' or cheats.

There are so many disparate literary resources in our region and so many opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic and metro D.C. and Baltimore areas that keeping track of what is going on as far as readings, festivals and opportunities for publishing is a daunting task. If there were some kind of search mechanism devoted only to literary organizations and offerings or some kind of app for a cell phone, it would make it much easier to find out what is going on and where and what opportunities are available not just for writers but for young writers. I've tried one small thing in developing a regional events link for central Maryland in Frederick Reads: Maryland Literary Calendar (http://mdliterarycalendar.blogspot.com/) and other organizations such as CityLit Project (http://www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=programs) and tBeltway (http://washingtonart.com/beltway/ponews.html) have published calendars as well. However, to be able to access all literary resources in one place so that both educators and writers could help promote the literary arts from the most accomplished to most novice (Poet Laureate down to elementary school haiku) would be phenomenal to both education as well as the arts. Think of it as a Literary Guild Application!

There are so many disparate literary resources in our region and so many opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic and metro D.C. and Baltimore areas that keeping track of what is going on as far as readings, festivals and opportunities for publishing is a daunting task. If there were some kind of search mechanism devoted only to literary organizations and offerings or some kind of app for a cell phone, it would make it much easier to find out what is going on and where and what opportunities are available not just for writers but for young writers. I've tried one small…

I wish there was a company that made it easy for schools to create an App for all the iPads they have recently purchased. A company that had a series of "modules" or options that a school could choose to put together to create a simple yet very useful app for in-class and at-home use.

A rubric generator that we could make and then correct online by clicking radio buttons of each box and then placing comments where appropriate. Then having the capability to email a URL or embed it into a website would be great. We can type much more quickly than handwriting comments and it would speed things up, quickly shareable with parents, etc.

DataLink provides a break-down of student responses for every test item. It would be useful to translate this into a guide that listed every question, the standard, the number of students who selected each response item and the names of students who answered incorrectly. I already have a template for the guide. *Moneymaker*

I would love to be able keep track of student behavior along a timeline. if i could just tap either a "+" or "-" state for students throughout class and it would submit the data, reseting the view every minute or more with a nuetral state if nothing was selected.

My band teacher wants a large size volume meter so band members can see how softly/loudly they are playing at a glance. A visual for "pianissimo" and "fortissimo" and all the others would be helpful. I visualize a 10-20 scale set of large (or clustered) LED's in multiple colors. Maybe 3 feet tall (like a tower speaker) with a built in microphone/sensor at the top with adjustable sensitivity. Think drag race christmas tree meets audio peak meters.

I wish there was a way for a student to "raise" their hand with a web tool or iOS app that would send a push notification over wifi to the teacher. The teacher then could have a que of students instead of having students call out or raise hands.